Boston Dynamics was reportedly not part of this fold,
though, and is instead exploring sale options.

When Rubin launched Replicant, the division was shooting
for its first consumer product launch by 2020,
according to an email viewed by Business Insider, but efforts
became disjointed after Rubin left, and achieving that ambition
seemed less likely. Bloomberg reports that Boston Dynamics was
reluctant to work with other Google robotics engineers to come up
with near-term products, including a "low-cost quadruped
robot."

"There's excitement from the tech press, but we're
also starting to see some negative threads about it being
terrifying, ready to take humans' jobs," Courtney Hohne, a
spokeswoman for Google, wrote on an internal online forum viewed
by Bloomberg. She also asked other Googlers to distance its
moonshot lab, X, from the video.

"We don't want to trigger a whole separate media
cycle about where BD really is at Google," she
wrote.

Here's the video in question:

Google X boss Astro Teller also reportedly told the rest of the
robotics team that joined X in December that if robotics couldn't
provide a practical solution to a problem Google was trying to
solve, they would be resassigned to work on other things.